Brickhill Primary School

Community school·Primary school Bedford·MK41 7AA
Composite score
37.1
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#11,811
National rank
#1286
In East of England
#33
In Bedford
Top 80%
Nationally

Performance (KS2 SATs)

% meeting expected RWM
57%
% achieving higher RWM
0%
Reading average scaled score
105.0
National avg ≈ 105
Maths average scaled score
103.0
National avg ≈ 104
Reading progress
—
Maths progress
—

Getting a place

Offered a place after putting it first
100%
27 first choices, 29 places
First choices per place
0.93
fewer first choices than places
Applications naming the school
92
any preference, for 29 places
First preferences per place, last five years▼ 0.20
00.511.5
1 per place
1.0320220.9620230.9720241.1320250.932026

Red dashed line = one first choice per place. How to read this

Every child who put Brickhill Primary School first was offered a place in 2026, so no distance cut-off applied: living further away did not cost a place that year.

Application figures: DfE, school level applications and offers (2026 intake).

School profile

Age range
5–11
Pupils on roll
208
Gender
Mixed
Religious character
None

Pupil background

% FSM ever-6
17.8%
Typical primary: 21.5%
% EAL
15.9%
Typical primary: 9.6%

Special educational needs

% SEN support
13.5%
Typical primary: 14.3%
% with an EHC plan
4.3%
Typical primary: 3.0%

Attendance

Overall absence
4.0%
Typical primary: 5.3%
Persistently absent
7.3%
Typical primary: 13.3%

Staffing & funding

Pupils per teacher
22.6
Typical primary: 20.7
Spend per pupil
£6,666
Typical primary: £6,960

“Typical” = the median primary school in England. What this means

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Location

Brickhill Primary School at a glance

Located in Bedford, Brickhill Primary School is a primary school, classified by the DfE as a community school. The school educates roughly 208 pupils aged 5 to 11. 57% of its pupils met the expected standard in reading, writing and maths at the end of Key Stage 2, broadly in line with the national average (national figure: 61%). The proportion reaching the expected standard has fallen by 9.0 percentage points compared with the previous year. On our composite score, which combines the DfE attainment measures above, this places it in the lower half of primary schools nationally.

Pupils achieved an average scaled score of 105 in reading and 103 in maths (national averages are about 105 and 104). Getting a place is straightforward: for the September 2026 intake every family who made Brickhill Primary School their first choice was offered one of its 29 Reception places. Overall pupil absence was 4.0%. There are about 22.6 pupils per teacher. Brickhill Primary School does not currently have a recent graded Ofsted judgement on record (often the case for newer or recently converted schools), so it is worth asking when its next inspection is expected. This overview is generated automatically from the latest published DfE performance tables and Ofsted data; figures are rounded, and you can check the originals via the official links above.

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